HOLY SH*T THE RAMS JUST TRADED FOR MYLES GARRETT!!!

The phone was buzzing, and then it was official. Rich wanted confirmation before he said it out loud, and once the reporting lined up, he said it: Myles Garrett is being traded from the Cleveland Browns to the Los Angeles Rams.

"That changes a lot," Rich said. "That shows you the Rams are not messing around."

To Rich, the move is a statement about how Los Angeles sees its window. The Rams are pairing Garrett with their MVP quarterback, Matthew Stafford, while he is still playing, and Rich figures the trade only sharpens Stafford's appetite to keep going.

"He might want to keep playing until his wheels fall off," Rich said.

The Ty Simpson piece is what made it possible. Los Angeles spent the 13th overall pick on Simpson as its quarterback of the future, which is exactly why the Rams could afford to spend premium draft capital elsewhere. "They don't need your first-round choice on a quarterback or anybody, quite frankly," Rich said.

He framed the addition as a warning shot to the rest of the division. "Next time the Seahawks are inside the 20 or the 10, or Brock Purdy's anywhere on the field, we've got Myles Garrett coming for you," Rich said. The subtext: the Rams believe they can win now, and win in their own stadium.

There is a ripple effect, too. With the compensation going out, Rich does not see how Los Angeles stays in the A.J. Brown conversation. There is nothing, he imagines, significant enough left in the store to give to Philadelphia. If the Rams were ever in that mix, they are not anymore.

The terms, as relayed on the show, send Jared Verse, a 2027 first-round pick and additional compensation back to Cleveland. The silver lining noted on the desk was that the Browns at least land a young stud to step into an impossible assignment.

Garrett, the show allowed, is technically irreplaceable. But Verse arrives with something to prove. As the desk imagined it, the message lands as a challenge: all right, I get it, I am in Cleveland now. And a first-round pick a year out is damn near a second-rounder in their minds anyway.

"Big breaking news indeed," Rich said.